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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ubi: help message correction
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:01:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vdlv34wj.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A59D9BD.4010100@poczta.fm> (Andrzej Wolski's message of "Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:40:29 +0200")

Hi Andrzej,

>> In message <h3bhhv$l6g$1@ger.gmane.org> you wrote:
>>> Fix incorrect information about size units.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Wolski <awolski@poczta.fm>
>>> ---
>>> diff --git a/common/cmd_ubi.c b/common/cmd_ubi.c
>>> index bbca389..d1653b1 100644
>>> --- a/common/cmd_ubi.c
>>> +++ b/common/cmd_ubi.c
>>> @@ -608,6 +608,6 @@ U_BOOT_CMD(ubi, 6, 1, do_ubi,
>>>   		" - Remove volume\n"
>>>   	"[Legends]\n"
>>>   	" volume: charater name\n"
>>> -	" size: KiB, MiB, GiB, and bytes\n"
>>> +	" size: hex value\n"
>>>   	" type: s[tatic] or d[ynamic] (default=dynamic)"
>>>   );
>> 
>> This is IMHO not a helpful help message.
>> 
>> First, it is reduncant, as all input in U-Boot is in hex  format.  So
>> why  repeat that information. And "size: value" - what does that tell
>> me? Would it not be good to mention the unit? Is it in KiB, MiB, GiB,
>> bytes, blocks, or whatever?
>
> This is size in bytes. Original message was probably based on Linux 
> mtd-utils where size in KiB, MiB, etc. can be specified. This is not 
> true in U-Boot where all input is in hex, so this message have to be 
> corrected. If you think "hex value" is not helpful, can you suggest 
> something better? Maybe just remove size entry?

How about "size: specified in bytes"?

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-12  2:25 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ubi: help message correction Andrzej Wolski
2009-07-12  6:30 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-12 12:40   ` Andrzej Wolski
2009-07-14 11:01     ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2009-07-17 20:26       ` Andrzej Wolski
2009-07-20  7:24         ` Stefan Roese

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